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Backup-SPFarm is not progressing for around 40 minutes. latest stage is "Verbose: [IndexController] Waiting for second phase backup for index "

from the error, what it looks like you are search crawl is running. if an active crawl is crawling the content then backup job will struggle to perform a backup. Please make sure that search crawls ...
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SharePoint 2019 Min role question

if you check the docs document on the MinRole: Description of MinRole and associated services in SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019 Basically this is how MSFT design these services. When you select a ...
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ItemEventReceiver lifetime

I'll add my 2 cents. If event receivers were developed with care and best practices, it should run only once. And always runs on a web front end server (w3wp) in normal circumstances. When you Add/...
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SharePoint CU update installation order in Server Farm

Yes, you can install the binaries on both server at same time. Installation of binaries can be parallel But SharePoint product and configuration wizard is single thread, which means 1 server at a ...
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How to move web app data between farms

Back–up content database from the Source SP2010 SQL server and restore it in Destination SP 2010 SQL Server. Make Sure that the new Content DB has corect permissions (read & write). In SharePoint ...
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Slowness on the first load of Sharepoint Site

This is normal, since Sharepoint is an IIS hosted .NET application. On the first request all the Application Pools have to be started, dependencies get loaded, etc. Additionally the AppPool-Recycling ...
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What is the Minimum permission the Configuration Wizards' Service Account need to have on the Database

1st you have to login with the farm admin account in order to start config wizard The account which will run service should be domain account. Rest sharepoint will fix the permission for that account. ...
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Create SharePoint 2016 dev and test environment (cloning)

If SharePoint doesn't work, because it should, there are a few things to check: Are all your servers part of your test-domain, and can you sign in to SharePoint Servers using a domain account? i.e. ...
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Rename SharePoint Development Server

Change Alternate Access Mappings in Central Administration Check if the hostname is used in IIS-Binding Change Search Content Sources and perform FullCrawl Check & maybe change MySite Host ...
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Temporarily remove SharePoint 2010 Application server for patching

Go to Services on your servers and shut off the SharePoint Administration, SharePoint Timer Service, and SharePoint Search service on all servers before updating. This will disconnect SP WFE from the ...
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Sharepoint Event Receiver Not Firing on ItemAdded

1- Check the Element.xml of the Event Receiver and add the listUrl Attribute : <Receivers ListUrl="Lists/YourListUrl"> // For simple Lists or <Receivers ListUrl="Documents"> //For ...
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Event Viewer Error with Event ID 3: WebHost failed to process a request repeating continuously

The below solution works for me. In my case the the issue is regarding User Profile so I have make those changes for respective Application Pool. https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/...
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how to minimize database latency issues for increase sharepoint web front end servers issues

Some things to check consider: Add RAM to SQL Server box Decrease the distance between the SQL Server and the SharePoint servers Isolate the SQL Server from other applications--just have SharePoint ...
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ItemEventReceiver lifetime

If you update a Listitem in a ItemUpdated EventReceiver and call an item.Update() inside this receiver, you fire new ItemUpdated Events. To prevent this behavior, you can set EnableEventFiring to ...
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Is there any harm if i use the sharepoint farm account (managed account) to create site collections,lists, columns

When you create the site collection, you have two options either create via powershell or Central admin. for that you need a account which is part of farm admin group on the central admin, use that ...
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